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  1. The Clock Came Off the Wall

    In the spring of 2018, schools in England started taking analog clocks down from the walls of their examination halls. The reason arrived in the education press without a trace of shame: teenagers sitting their exams could no longer read a dial, they grew anxious watching a circle that told them nothing, and the schools judged it kinder to remove the clock than to teach the child. A deputy leader of the head teachers' association explained that students were more accurate with digital displays. So the ladders went up, the hands came down, and an instrument that had governed rooms of learning for two centuries was carried to the storage closet as a courtesy to the people it once served. I have kept that ladder in my head ever since, because it shows the modern school system performing its signature move in a single gesture: confronted with an untaught skill, remove the evidence. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/17/the-

  2. The Clock Came Off the Wall

    In the spring of 2018, schools in England started taking analog clocks down from the walls of their examination halls. The reason arrived in the education press without a trace of shame: teenagers sitting their exams could no longer read a dial, they grew anxious watching a circle that told them nothing, and the schools judged it kinder to remove the clock than to teach the child. A deputy leader of the head teachers' association explained that students were more accurate with digital displays. So the ladders went up, the hands came down, and an instrument that had governed rooms of learning for two centuries was carried to the storage closet as a courtesy to the people it once served. I have kept that ladder in my head ever since, because it shows the modern school system performing its signature move in a single gesture: confronted with an untaught skill, remove the evidence. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/17/the-

  3. The Clock Came Off the Wall

    In the spring of 2018, schools in England started taking analog clocks down from the walls of their examination halls. The reason arrived in the education press without a trace of shame: teenagers sitting their exams could no longer read a dial, they grew anxious watching a circle that told them nothing, and the schools judged it kinder to remove the clock than to teach the child. A deputy leader of the head teachers' association explained that students were more accurate with digital displays. So the ladders went up, the hands came down, and an instrument that had governed rooms of learning for two centuries was carried to the storage closet as a courtesy to the people it once served. I have kept that ladder in my head ever since, because it shows the modern school system performing its signature move in a single gesture: confronted with an untaught skill, remove the evidence. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/17/the-

  4. The Clock Came Off the Wall

    In the spring of 2018, schools in England started taking analog clocks down from the walls of their examination halls. The reason arrived in the education press without a trace of shame: teenagers sitting their exams could no longer read a dial, they grew anxious watching a circle that told them nothing, and the schools judged it kinder to remove the clock than to teach the child. A deputy leader of the head teachers' association explained that students were more accurate with digital displays. So the ladders went up, the hands came down, and an instrument that had governed rooms of learning for two centuries was carried to the storage closet as a courtesy to the people it once served. I have kept that ladder in my head ever since, because it shows the modern school system performing its signature move in a single gesture: confronted with an untaught skill, remove the evidence. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/17/the-

  5. The Clock Came Off the Wall

    In the spring of 2018, schools in England started taking analog clocks down from the walls of their examination halls. The reason arrived in the education press without a trace of shame: teenagers sitting their exams could no longer read a dial, they grew anxious watching a circle that told them nothing, and the schools judged it kinder to remove the clock than to teach the child. A deputy leader of the head teachers' association explained that students were more accurate with digital displays. So the ladders went up, the hands came down, and an instrument that had governed rooms of learning for two centuries was carried to the storage closet as a courtesy to the people it once served. I have kept that ladder in my head ever since, because it shows the modern school system performing its signature move in a single gesture: confronted with an untaught skill, remove the evidence. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/17/the-

  6. ACT schools grappling with class 'splitting', as union flags more industrial action
    By Madeleine Rojahn, Peter Lusted, and Adam Shirley

    A nationwide teacher shortage affecting the ACT is causing huge teacher workloads and disrupting learning, as the union calls on the government to step up its pay and conditions offer.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-17/cla

    #PublicSchools #IndustrialAction #Education #MadeleineRojahn #PeterLusted #AdamShirley

  7. ACT schools grappling with class 'splitting', as union flags more industrial action
    By Madeleine Rojahn, Peter Lusted, and Adam Shirley

    A nationwide teacher shortage affecting the ACT is causing huge teacher workloads and disrupting learning, as the union calls on the government to step up its pay and conditions offer.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-17/cla

    #PublicSchools #IndustrialAction #Education #MadeleineRojahn #PeterLusted #AdamShirley

  8. ACT schools grappling with class 'splitting', as union flags more industrial action
    By Madeleine Rojahn, Peter Lusted, and Adam Shirley

    A nationwide teacher shortage affecting the ACT is causing huge teacher workloads and disrupting learning, as the union calls on the government to step up its pay and conditions offer.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-17/cla

    #PublicSchools #IndustrialAction #Education #MadeleineRojahn #PeterLusted #AdamShirley

  9. ACT schools grappling with class 'splitting', as union flags more industrial action
    By Madeleine Rojahn, Peter Lusted, and Adam Shirley

    A nationwide teacher shortage affecting the ACT is causing huge teacher workloads and disrupting learning, as the union calls on the government to step up its pay and conditions offer.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-17/cla

    #PublicSchools #IndustrialAction #Education #MadeleineRojahn #PeterLusted #AdamShirley

  10. ACT schools grappling with class 'splitting', as union flags more industrial action
    By Madeleine Rojahn, Peter Lusted, and Adam Shirley

    A nationwide teacher shortage affecting the ACT is causing huge teacher workloads and disrupting learning, as the union calls on the government to step up its pay and conditions offer.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-17/cla

    #PublicSchools #IndustrialAction #Education #MadeleineRojahn #PeterLusted #AdamShirley

  11. #ICE arrests #superintendent of #Iowa’s largest school district

    By Zoe Sottile, Priscilla Alvarez, September 27, 2025

    Excerpt: "The school district and #DHS presented starkly divergent portraits of [Superintendent #IanRoberts]. DHS described him as a 'criminal alien' and suggested he was a public safety threat. But at a news conference after his arrest, board president of #DesMoines #PublicSchools Jackie Norris said the superintendent was 'an integral part of our school community' who 'has shown up in ways big and small' for students and staff. And Roberts disclosed his weapon charge, related to a hunting rifle, when he was hired, a district spokesperson told CNN.

    "The arrest spurred a protest outside the federal courthouse in Des Moines. '#Education, not #deportation / Free Dr. Roberts,' read one sign carried by a demonstrator, according to footage from CNN affiliate KCCI. Local education and immigration advocacy groups have rallied behind the superintendent."

    Read more:
    cnn.com/2025/09/26/us/ian-robe

    #FreeDoctorRoberts #FreeDrRoberts #EducationNotDeportation #ICESucks #RacialProfiling #Targeting #authoritarianism
    #IPreferMyCountryNeatWithoutICE

  12. #ICE arrests #superintendent of #Iowa’s largest school district

    By Zoe Sottile, Priscilla Alvarez, September 27, 2025

    Excerpt: "The school district and #DHS presented starkly divergent portraits of [Superintendent #IanRoberts]. DHS described him as a 'criminal alien' and suggested he was a public safety threat. But at a news conference after his arrest, board president of #DesMoines #PublicSchools Jackie Norris said the superintendent was 'an integral part of our school community' who 'has shown up in ways big and small' for students and staff. And Roberts disclosed his weapon charge, related to a hunting rifle, when he was hired, a district spokesperson told CNN.

    "The arrest spurred a protest outside the federal courthouse in Des Moines. '#Education, not #deportation / Free Dr. Roberts,' read one sign carried by a demonstrator, according to footage from CNN affiliate KCCI. Local education and immigration advocacy groups have rallied behind the superintendent."

    Read more:
    cnn.com/2025/09/26/us/ian-robe

    #FreeDoctorRoberts #FreeDrRoberts #EducationNotDeportation #ICESucks #RacialProfiling #Targeting #authoritarianism
    #IPreferMyCountryNeatWithoutICE

  13. #ICE arrests #superintendent of #Iowa’s largest school district

    By Zoe Sottile, Priscilla Alvarez, September 27, 2025

    Excerpt: "The school district and #DHS presented starkly divergent portraits of [Superintendent #IanRoberts]. DHS described him as a 'criminal alien' and suggested he was a public safety threat. But at a news conference after his arrest, board president of #DesMoines #PublicSchools Jackie Norris said the superintendent was 'an integral part of our school community' who 'has shown up in ways big and small' for students and staff. And Roberts disclosed his weapon charge, related to a hunting rifle, when he was hired, a district spokesperson told CNN.

    "The arrest spurred a protest outside the federal courthouse in Des Moines. '#Education, not #deportation / Free Dr. Roberts,' read one sign carried by a demonstrator, according to footage from CNN affiliate KCCI. Local education and immigration advocacy groups have rallied behind the superintendent."

    Read more:
    cnn.com/2025/09/26/us/ian-robe

    #FreeDoctorRoberts #FreeDrRoberts #EducationNotDeportation #ICESucks #RacialProfiling #Targeting #authoritarianism
    #IPreferMyCountryNeatWithoutICE

  14. #ICE arrests #superintendent of #Iowa’s largest school district

    By Zoe Sottile, Priscilla Alvarez, September 27, 2025

    Excerpt: "The school district and #DHS presented starkly divergent portraits of [Superintendent #IanRoberts]. DHS described him as a 'criminal alien' and suggested he was a public safety threat. But at a news conference after his arrest, board president of #DesMoines #PublicSchools Jackie Norris said the superintendent was 'an integral part of our school community' who 'has shown up in ways big and small' for students and staff. And Roberts disclosed his weapon charge, related to a hunting rifle, when he was hired, a district spokesperson told CNN.

    "The arrest spurred a protest outside the federal courthouse in Des Moines. '#Education, not #deportation / Free Dr. Roberts,' read one sign carried by a demonstrator, according to footage from CNN affiliate KCCI. Local education and immigration advocacy groups have rallied behind the superintendent."

    Read more:
    cnn.com/2025/09/26/us/ian-robe

    #FreeDoctorRoberts #FreeDrRoberts #EducationNotDeportation #ICESucks #RacialProfiling #Targeting #authoritarianism
    #IPreferMyCountryNeatWithoutICE

  15. #ICE arrests #superintendent of #Iowa’s largest school district

    By Zoe Sottile, Priscilla Alvarez, September 27, 2025

    Excerpt: "The school district and #DHS presented starkly divergent portraits of [Superintendent #IanRoberts]. DHS described him as a 'criminal alien' and suggested he was a public safety threat. But at a news conference after his arrest, board president of #DesMoines #PublicSchools Jackie Norris said the superintendent was 'an integral part of our school community' who 'has shown up in ways big and small' for students and staff. And Roberts disclosed his weapon charge, related to a hunting rifle, when he was hired, a district spokesperson told CNN.

    "The arrest spurred a protest outside the federal courthouse in Des Moines. '#Education, not #deportation / Free Dr. Roberts,' read one sign carried by a demonstrator, according to footage from CNN affiliate KCCI. Local education and immigration advocacy groups have rallied behind the superintendent."

    Read more:
    cnn.com/2025/09/26/us/ian-robe

    #FreeDoctorRoberts #FreeDrRoberts #EducationNotDeportation #ICESucks #RacialProfiling #Targeting #authoritarianism
    #IPreferMyCountryNeatWithoutICE